Wall pocket



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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RUDOLPH DE BOER, OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR T GRAND RAPIDS METALCRAFT CORPORATION, OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICI-I IGAN, A CORPORATION OF MICHIGAN.

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Application filed February 21, 1927. Serial No. 169,909.

The present invention relates to wall pockets, i. e.,' such containers, etc. as are mounted in the walls of automobiles and the like; and its object is, generally, to provide an improved device of this character ;.and more particularly, to provide improved means for assembling and disassembling the parts thereof.

This and any other objects hereinafter ap- 0 gearing are attained by, and the invention nds preferable embodiment in, the structure hereinafter particularly described in the body ,ofthis specification and illustrated by the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a view of a wall pocket looking toward the upper left-hand corner thereof, its closure being open;

' Figure 2 is a view in perspective of a portion of the same, its closure being shut; Figure 3 is a horizontal sectional view thereof taken on line 3-3 of Figure 2;

Figure 4 is a vertical sectional view of certain-parts of the same taken on line 4-4 of Figure 3; p

I Figure 5 is a top plan view of a detent member of the device; and V Figure 6 is a top plan view of a pintle member thereof.

The device as illustrated by said drawings comprises a base member 1, substantially rectangular in form and having an opening 2 between its top and bottom walls 3. 4 and .its side walls 5, 5. This base member is mounted ina wall 6, extending into. a cavity 7 therein, and is secured in position by suitable means as by screws passing through holes 8 in its sidewalls 5 and engaging the wall 6 of the automobile or other structure, the flanges 9 of this base member serving to cover j and conceal said cavity 7. The base members opening 2 is closed by a closure 7 10 swingably mounted on the base member by a pintle 11 extending through holes 12 in the closures side walls 13 and having itsopposite ends turnable in bearings 15 in the base members side walls 5. This closure may be assembled in the base member and disassembled therefrom by inoving this pintle long-itudinally from its normal position (seen in Figures 3 and 4) far enough to withdraw one of its ends from its bearing 15 and hole 12,

whereupon said end may be moved 'or sprung upwardly, and the closure inserted (for assembling) into the opening 2, and thereafter said end of the pintle may be moved or sprung l portion or recess 18 to lock the pintle against movement from its said normal position. This detent (as illustrated) is a flat strip of spring metal whose opposite ends 19 abut on the inner surfaces of the closures side walls 13 respectively, and whose end extensions 20 engage in recesses 21 respectively, to hold the detent in its operative position. This detent, at its middle, may be sprung upwardly to release its portion 17 from the pintles portion or recess 18, and to release its extensions 20 from the recesses 21, in order to remove the detent from the closure. This detent is additionally held releasably in its normal and operative position by a member, such as thecontainers 25 inserted into the closure in a position wherein their upper ends abut on the closures inwardly-extending top wall 26 and their lower ends abut on the upper surface of the detent, or on its upwardly-extending spring portions 27. i

The closures side walls 13 may be provided with projections 30 adapted to springably seat I releasably in one or the other of the angularly-spaced recesses 31 in the base members side walls 5 inthe open or closed position of the closure; and said closure may have short extenslons 32 traveling in thebase members slots 33 to limit the closures swinging movement.

. The invention being intended to be pointed out in the claims, is not to be limited to or by details of construction of the particular embodiment thereof illustrated by the drawin s or hereinbefore described.

claim: R 1. In a devlce of the character described:

a base member having an opening and opposite walls each provided with a rotary bearing; a swingable closure for said opening having a pintle longitudinally movable to a normal position wherein its ends turn in the bearings respectively and to another position wherein one of its ends is withdrawn from its bearing, the pintlehaving a portion lockingly engaged by the hereinafter-mew tioned detent; a detent carried by the closure wherein its ends turn in the bearings respec-- tively and to another position wherein one of its ends is withdrawn from its bearlng, the

pintle having a portion lockingly engaged by the hereinafter-mentioned detent; a detent whose ends abut on the closures'said walls respectively and having a portion releasably engaging the pintles said. portion to lock the pintle against movement from its normal position, the detent being springable to a position wherein its said portion is,re--

leased from the pintles said portion.

3. In a device of the character described: a base member having an opening and opposite walls each provided with a rotary hearing; a swingable closure for said opening having side walls and a pintle extending through the closures said walls and being longitudinally movable to a normal position wherein its ends turn in the bearings respectively and to another position wherein one of its ends is withdrawn from its bearing, the pintle having a portion lockingly engaged by the hereinafter-mentioned detent; a detentwhose ends abut on the closures said Wallsrespectively and having a portion releasably engaging the pintles said portion to lock the pintle against movement from its normal position, the detent being springable to a position wherein its said portion is released from the pintles said portion; a member releasably abutting the detent to hold the same in its locking engagement with the pintle.

4. In a device of the character described: a base member having an opening and oppopintlehaving a portion lockingly engaged by the hereinafter-mentioned detent; a detent whose ends abut on the closures said walls respectively and having a spring and a portion releasably engaging the pintles said portion to lock the pintle against movement from its normal position, the detent being laterally movable to a position wherein its said portion is released from the pintles said portion; a member releasably abutting compressingly the detents spring to hold the detent in its locking engagement with the pintle.

5. In a device of the ,character described: a base member havin an opening and opposite Walls each provided with a rotary bearing; a swingable closure for said opening having a top wall and side walls and a pintle extending through the closures side walls and being longitudinally movable to a normal position wherein its ends turn in the bearings respectively and to another position wherein one of its ends is withdrawn from its bearing, the pintle having a portion lockingly engaged by the hereinafter-mentioned detent; a detent having a portion releasably engaging 'the pintles said portion to lock the pintle against movement from its normal position; an open-top container mem ber releasably abutting at one end on the closures top wall and at the other end on' the detent to hold the same in its locking enga ement with the pintle,

l n testimon whereof I have hereunto set my hand at rand Rap'ds, Michigan, this 8th day of February, 1927.

RUDOLPH DE BQER. 

